My cousin is here, visiting from China.  He came over to visit and meet V the other day.  He was wandering around the house and came across our ‘picture board’ (it needs updating quite desperately)…

He spent a few minutes looking at the board and I heard him say, ‘Oh my God…  Is that you?’

The picture he was looking at was the one below (I’m on the left).

I turned to see which photo he was talking about and said, ‘Yep.’  He asked when it was taken.  So I told him, ‘Six years ago – the week of our wedding.’

‘WOW!  You were seriously slim!’

Yes.  Yes.  Yes I know I was.  I know I’m not anymore.  I know it’s highly unlikely that I’ll actually look like that again.  But funnily enough, I didn’t mind so much that he’d said that.

What I DID mind was my husband (who was also in the room) nodding his head in agreement and saying something like, ‘Yep’ (but he was actually saying a whole lot more).

That’s when I asked him, ‘Have *you* looked in the mirror lately?  Have you seen *your* belly?  And you didn’t even carry a child in it for nine months!  What’s *your* excuse?’  Poor man ran for cover.

But…  But I knew.  There’s no excuse to look the way I do when Vinay is already 18 months!  I should have lost all the weight (it can’t even be classified as baby weight anymore) already!

I see mums in playgroup – with children (some have more than one) that are younger or about the same age as Vinay – and they look FABULOUS!  

That’s it.  Time to do something about it!